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artisanship." Drs. Charles Horace
Mayo of Roches ter, Minn, and George Washington Crile were two others
who boldly digressed from the strict business of surgery. Mayo on War.
Dr. Mayo, who alternated with his elder brother Dr. William James Mayo
as chief surgical consultant to the U. S. Army Medical Department
during the War, who won the Distinguished Service Medal and is a
brigadier general in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, was thinking
last week that war again was imminent over Europe Cried
he, speaking before the Chicago Association of Commerce: "The
speed of the world has increased so fast that a lot of people can't
keep up. Their training and vision are still those of the horse age.
Now the Government is send ing fine stallions out to the western plains
to breed horses for the cavalry. You might as well go to war in a horse
and buggy. This is a machine age, and war hereafter will be waged by
technical men. We are spending a quarter of a billion dollars for
warships which will be obsolete in ten years. No class A countries will
ever fight another war with massed men. It will be too expensive. The
world must be ready for a quick jump. Planes will drop explosives, gas,
and disease. Their maxim will be, 'Jump in and destroy as quickly as you can.' " Dr.
Crile on Glands. Medicine is cautiously probing at life, health and
disease with the newest tools of chemist and physicist. In England
Dr. James Eustace Radclyffe McDonagh, whose studies are gradually
becoming known in the U. S., is using colloid chemistry, including the
physicochemical action of the electrical charges on colloid particles.
In the U. S. Dr. Crile applies electronic interpretations. Dr. Crile
last week boldly predicted that during the coming century "the
state of activity ... of the body [will be measured by] the
relative percentages of the different parts of the
[electromagnetic] spectrum emitted by different parts of the
body." More within the compass of everyday medical thought was
another physiological complex which Dr. Crile described last week. The
thyroid, he argued, is a power-house for the body; the sympathetic
nervous system carries the power impulses throughout the body; the
adrenal glands control the power; and the frontal lobe of the brain,
seat of intelligence, is the driver. The tempo of modern life causes
the frontal lobe to drive the adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals
overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can
stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned
Dr. Crile, "If this interpretation is correct, then this
entire group of neurogenic diseases should be abated or cured by
removal of the thyroid, when the disease is in the thyroid group; by
denervation of the adrenals when the disease is in other groups,
while in a small group both thyroid-removal and adrenal-denervation
should abate or cure the disease. That this is the case is now
established." Factory Medical Code. The surgeons are trying to put
through an NRA code which will require all employers of labor to have
their employes given a medical examination by hired company doctors.
Every factory must contribute to the support of pathological and
x-ray laboratories, intend the surgeons. They ''insist that industry
utilize hospitals which are equipped with proper facilities and
standardized." Factory
